<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The topic of this paper is the situation of language skills and a determining factor of it in minority context: languages of instruction in Transylvania. Presenting the socio-demographic context and the status of languages as they are manifested in language skills. Language skills are presented referring to mother tongue skills, second and foreign language competence. The paper emphasizes that the connection between schooling, education, and language usage is evident in the case of minority languages since the instruction in minority languages is a key factor for the maintenance of the language. The empirical data used in the paper come from several sources, most important of them being a sociolinguistic survey in a representative sample of Hungarians in Transylvania carried out by The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (Cluj/Kolozsvár) in 2009.</p></abstract>

The topic of this paper is the situation of language skills and a determining factor of it in minority context: languages of instruction in Transylvania. Presenting the socio-demographic context and the status of languages as they are manifested in language skills. Language skills are presented referring to mother tongue skills, second and foreign language competence. The paper emphasizes that the connection between schooling, education, and language usage is evident in the case of minority languages since the instruction in minority languages is a key factor for the maintenance of the language. The empirical data used in the paper come from several sources, most important of them being a sociolinguistic survey in a representative sample of Hungarians in Transylvania carried out by The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (Cluj/Kolozsvár) in 2009.

Multilingualism and Education in Transylvania

Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Letters Hungarian and General Linguistics Department

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The topic of this paper is the situation of language skills and a determining factor of it in minority context: languages of instruction in Transylvania....

Multilingualism and Education in Transylvania

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 25 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0052

Keywords
bilingualism, language skills, education, linguistic rights

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Multilingualism and Education in Transylvania

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 25 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0052

Keywordsbilingualism, language skills, education, linguistic rights

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
bilingualism, language skills, education, linguistic rights